Foreign News: Wives & Clubs

Smug housewives who have drawn Britain's Dole, claiming complacently to
be "unemployed." were kicked out of their petty sinecures by the
thousand last week.

Kicking was done by the Public Assistance Office in each county. Such
offices used to administer only poor law relief. They were appointed
local Dole dispute referees when it was "tightened up" as one of the
first acts of the National Government (TIME, Sept. 21). Prime
Minister Ramsay MacDonald, whose main election appeal was to women,
arranged that the new Dole screw should not turn against them until
last...